Chapter 3
Moving Around a Document
IN THIS CHAPTER
Using the scroll bars
Moving the insertion pointer
Getting around with keyboard shortcuts
Getting lost and getting back
Using the Go To command
Perhaps your computer is blessed with a humongous monitor. Or maybe the system boasts multiple monitors, arrayed up the wall and higher than your head. I envy you. That’s because it would be easy for you to scan your entire document in Word all at once. Yes, you may need a stepladder to work the program and craft your text, but you could easily avoid the tricks and suggestions offered in this chapter for moving around within a document.
Scroll the Document
It’s ironic that the word scroll is used when referring to an electronic document. The scroll was the first form of portable recorded text, existing long before bound books. On a computer, scrolling is the process by which you view a little bit of a big document in a tiny window.
Working the vertical scroll bar
The document portion of ...
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